Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Table of cases -- International cases -- International Court of Justice -- European Commission Human Rights -- European Court of Human Rights -- Inter-American Court of Human Rights -- United Nations Human Rights Committee -- Germany -- Israel -- United Kingdom -- United States -- Table of treaties -- Table of legislation -- Constitutions -- Canada -- France -- India -- Kenya -- Republic of Ireland -- Spain -- Turkey -- United Kingdom -- United States -- Zimbabwe -- Table of international materials -- Council of Europe -- European Union -- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights -- Inter-American Court of Human Rights -- International Court of Justice -- International Criminal Court -- United Nations -- United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights -- United Nations Human Rights Committee -- United States -- Introduction -- Part I -- 1 Models of accommodation -- Classical models of accommodation -- The Roman dictatorship -- The French ''state of siege'': origins -- Martial law in the United Kingdom: origins -- Constitutional accommodation -- Emergency provisions in constitutional documents -- Constitutional necessity -- The authority to declare an emergency -- Legal results of a declaration of a state of emergency -- Checks and balances -- Legislative accommodation -- Modifying ordinary laws -- Special emergency legislation -- Interpretive accommodation -- ''Each crisis brings its word and deed'' -- 2 Law for all seasons -- Ex parte Milligan -- Holding the line -- A strategy of resistance -- Myths, symbolism, and ideals -- Slippery slopes -- Perceptions and misperceptions -- 3 Models of extra-legality -- Ethic of political responsibility -- Emergency jurisdiction and temporary measures in Jewish law.

Locke's theory of the prerogative power -- ''Casting behind metaphysical subtleties'' -- Dicey's ''spirit of legality'' -- Searching for ''moral politicians'' -- Disobedience and ratification -- Official disobedience -- Ex post ratification -- No security without law -- The case for rule departures -- Prospective and uncertain relief -- Courts and legislatures -- Giving reasons -- Ratifying egregious actions? -- Precedents -- Carl Schmitt's dark shadow -- Carl Schmitt's theory of the exception -- Decisionism and the Extra-Legal Measures model -- 4 Five degrees of separation -- Normalcy and emergency: rule and exception -- Sequencing and temporal distinctions: separating the best and the worst of times -- It's a bad world out there (I): spatial distinctions -- Colonies and empire: the origins of DORA -- The curtailment of the right to silence in the United Kingdom -- Interrogation in depth in Finchley? -- From l'Algérie française to la France algérienne -- The war on terror: Guantanamo and beyond -- It's a bad world out there (II): domestic and foreign affairs -- The distinct sphere of ''national security'' -- Communal divisions: us vs. them -- The normalization of the exception -- Part II -- 5 International human rights and emergencies -- Definitions of emergency -- Application of the models: Business as Usual -- Application of the models: accommodation -- International accommodation: constitutional and legislative -- Models of accommodation: interpretive accommodation -- The European human rights jurisprudence -- Judicial accommodation at the Inter-American Court -- Accommodation at the United Nations: the Human Rights Committee -- The gap between the theory and practice of emergency powers -- The Questiaux Report -- Paris Minimum Standards -- The Siracusa Principles: an attempt at concrete rules to limit abuse of emergencies.

Weakness of the ''aberration" hypothesis -- Artificiality of formal emergencies -- The hidden emergency -- Concluding assessment -- 6 Emergencies and humanitarian law -- Self-preservation, necessity, and self-defense in international law -- Internal armed conflicts and emergencies -- High-intensity emergencies -- Oversight of high-intensity emergencies -- Low-intensity conflict -- Protocol I -- Protocol II -- Common Article 3 -- Overlapping regimes: high meets low -- Conclusion -- 7 Terrorism, emergencies, and international responses to contemporary threats -- General issues of definition and applicable legal regimes -- Defining terrorism -- Models of emergency powers as applied to terrorism -- The ''terrorism and law" interface -- The regulation of terrorism by international humanitarian law -- International legal responses post-September 11 -- Suppression conventions -- The UN response to September 11 -- Implementing Resolution 1373 -- Human rights and other lacunae in operating Resolution 1373 -- Contextualizing the UN response -- The European Framework Decision on Terrorism -- Definitional issues arising from the Framework Decision -- State responses to Resolution 1373 and the European Framework Decision -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.